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27.\" $FreeBSD$
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29.Dd December 7, 2021
30.Dt EXT2FS 5
31.Os
32.Sh NAME
33.Nm ext2fs
34.Nd "ext2/ext3 file system"
35.Sh SYNOPSIS
36To link into the kernel:
37.Bd -ragged -offset indent
38.Cd "options EXT2FS"
39.Ed
40.Pp
41To load as a kernel loadable module:
42.Pp
43.Dl "kldload ext2fs"
44.Sh DESCRIPTION
45The
46.Nm
47driver will permit the
48.Dx
49kernel to access
50ext2 and ext3
51file systems.
52Journalling is currently not supported.
53.Sh EXAMPLES
54To mount a
55.Nm
56volume located on
57.Pa /dev/da1s1 :
58.Pp
59.Dl "mount_ext2fs /dev/da1s1 /mnt"
60.Sh SEE ALSO
61.Xr mount 2 ,
62.Xr unmount 2 ,
63.Xr fstab 5 ,
64.Xr mount 8
65.Sh HISTORY
66The
67.Nm
68driver first appeared in
69.Fx 2.2 .
70It was ported to
71.Dx 5.9
72by
73.An Tomohiro Kusumi Aq Mt tkusumi@netbsd.org .
74.Sh AUTHORS
75.An -nosplit
76The
77.Nm
78kernel implementation is derived from code written,
79or modified,
80by
81.An Godmar Back
82using the UFS CSRG sources for CMU Mach.
83.Pp
84.An John Dyson
85did the initial port to
86.Fx .
87.An Aditya Sarawgi
88merged important parts of the allocation code from a clean-room
89.Nx
90implementation.
91.\".An Zheng Liu
92.\"and
93.\".An Fedor Upurov
94.\"implemented the read and write support respectively for
95.\".Em ext4
96.\"filesystems.
97The
98.Fx
99community has contributed a huge amount of modifications.
100.Pp
101The initial version of this manual page was written by
102.An Craig Rodrigues Aq Mt rodrigc@FreeBSD.org .
103